Here you go, maybe the easiest basketball quiz you’ve ever taken: Who would you rather have on your NBA team?

A) Josh Howard, Kevin Martin, Delonte West and Luther Head; or B) Leandro Barbosa, Beno Udrih, Sasha Vujacic and Johan Petro.

According to a story in USA Today, the international players making up the second group – despite their minimal impact – are among those leading a revolution of “pinpoint passers, surefire shooters and team-first players.”

The article about the allegedly changing NBA quoted Nike’s George Raveling as saying teams are “realizing it’s less risky to draft internationals” because they are more coachable and don’t have American-style “posses.”

Well, that’s great – except drafting international players also has been less productive. The best road to NBA success remains drafting players trained in U.S. colleges, something commissioner David Stern recognized when he added an age minimum to the league’s draft.

We’ve been hearing about the international invasion in the NBA, but the impact on the league hasn’t been overwhelming. There are a few terrific players who developed overseas, including Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili of the Spurs and Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavs.

But the apparent superiority of the European training model, which allows coaches almost unlimited access to developing players, generally has not produced a better breed of player.

In the past three years, NBA teams have selected 18 internationally trained players in the first round. They have played a combined 37 seasons, only two of which ended with the player’s averaging at least 10 points.

By comparison, the 55 U.S. collegians selected in the first round have played a combined 100 seasons and averaged in double figures 38 times.

Look at the disparity: 38 percent of the college guys, 0.05 percent for the internationals. That’s embarrassing.

Think the internationals’ “team-first” approach makes their NBA franchises more successful? Of the top eight players in minutes for the four highest playoff seeds in each conference, 84 percent were trained by U.S. colleges and 14 percent developed overseas.

This is not to say the United States can’t learn from the European approach. More supervised practice here would do wonders. The NCAA should abandon or modify rules against college coaches’ working with players during summer. But the contention that American players no longer shoot, pass or handle the basketball as well as Europeans is ludicrous. Eighteen of this season’s top 20 NBA players in 3-point percentage and 19 of the top 20 in assists are U.S. college products.

What young Europeans miss is the opportunity to be featured in the NCAA Tournament and Final Four. The tourney has provided the best players in basketball history with the chance to understand the physicality of the American game. Players understand the responsibility of greatness and the consequences of defeat. That experience cannot be duplicated in an empty gymnasium, whether it be in Treviso, Italy, or Trenton, N.J.